zarkanian@sh.itjust.works to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours ago

Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

489

Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

zarkanian@sh.itjust.works to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours ago

An investigation by 404 Media found that Amazon bought a shipment of rare books so it could scan and destroy them to train AI.

Chat

Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.net
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
5
arrow-down
2·
13 hours ago
Copyright law is not some philosophically derived right it’s literally just a government granted Monopoly that was invented in the 1700s because printers wanted dibs on books. It literally serves Now function other than giving advantages to our corporate overlords

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

3.57K users / day
9.64K users / week
15.7K users / month
30.7K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
87.3K subscribers
19K Posts
747K Comments
Modlog